Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...professioner attended by a black slave objected to this most decidedly, intimating that in his last speech he had taken the same ground...
Tutor (dictating Greek prose composition). - Tell me, slave, where is thy horse...
...Club at their meeting last night discussed Turner's Slave Ship. Mr. William Hunt has kindly invited the club to visit his studio some evening. The invitation will probably be accepted for Saturday...
...soil and the scantiness of my information. To what extent the men use such appliances as rowing-weights, I am ignorant. For exceptional cases these weights may be essential, but I have grave doubts as to their universal application. It seems to me that the effects of such galley-slave work, eliminating, as it does, all that is agreeable in rowing, must be depressing, - a result to be deplored, seeing that the spirits of a crew should be raised by all legitimate means. I have heard many a boating-man say that he could pull a stronger...
...fellow-citizens, - Some few weeks ago I published a letter in the Spirit of the Times, accusing this fellow (pointing to Socrates) of lack of politeness at a dinner given to the prizefighter Pericles; I now find that he has taken his revenge on me by hiring a mercenary slave to intoxicate Listerops, my head bird, so that the latter cannot drill his army this evening in his usual brilliant style." Before Aristophanes could proceed further with his dastardly reflections on the noble Socrates, the Freshmen blew a shower of beans through their bean-shooters, and drove the cowardly...